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Sequestration: Solved. (No Flu Shot Confiscations Required!)

On the eve of the Armageddon, (Sequestration, for the rest of you) the President continues to run around the country and spread a misleading and wholly untruthful message by land, air, and You Tube. . .and I got to thinking about the billions we spend in any given year on complete and utter frivolities. Downright stupidity, you might say. The way that the president talks, you’d think we run such a tight ship that $85 billion dollars, a mere fraction of a percentage of the federal budget, would break the bank. According to our dear leader, $85 billion dollars in cuts will prevent Junior from getting his flu shot, Grandma from getting her medical care, and Joe Police Officer from getting his paycheck. Are you telling me that in a federal government that spends nearly $11 billion dollars a day, there’s not a single thing outside of the aforementioned sob stories that we could cut to comply with the $85 billion mandated by the law the president signed in 2011?

Actually, we could do even better than $85 billion; $40.4 billion to be precise. Here’s a Kodak moment for you: in FY 2010 alone, $125.4 billion was doled out in “improper payments.” You know, pension payments to dead federal workers; entitlement overpayments, etc. Baddabing, baddaboom. . . an $85 billion dollr problem solved. Naturally, of course, overpayments or improper payments are hardly the end of the story. We spend billions each year on complete and utter silliness, and thanks to the efforts of Senator Tom Coburn, I bring you a list of said silliness. (Please click here for the full booklet with explanations of each item.)

This is a snapshot from 2011 alone, totaling 6.9 billion dollars. Assuming similar levels of spending for each year of Obama’s first term, that’s $27.6 billion dollars. And we haven’t even mentioned his $4 million dollar Christmas vacations to the Land of Aloha, or the multi-trillion dollar debacle that is Obamacare; or the $1.4 billion dollar price tag for Keeping Up with the Obamas. . . I’d better stop, or I’ll literally run out of space.

Let’s take a peek at our trusty list, shall we? (Note: You might want to step away every ten items or so to avoid mental meltdown. You’ve been warned. )

I didn’t bother to add all those ridiculous items up, but I’m sure they would far outweigh the president’s current plan. I would never put myself in a position of relying on the government for subsidies to my business and yet my precious country is spending on things like this. Give me a break. No wonder all those in the arts. education and the environment are so high on Obama.

No kidding! He’s their sugar daddy! Unbelievable. That list of cuts adds up to nearly 7 billion; and if they simply addressed the improper payments situation they’d save over 100 billion a year. That’s far and beyond what sequestration will cut.